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|isbn=1529149800152919640X|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Suspect|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. All the birds He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to think of anything they could doJessica Holby. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river She's seriously allergic and began taking tiny amounts carries an EpiPen in case of water emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and flying back Brooks served a ragout to drop them into the fireHolby. The animals laughed: what good Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was that doingdead within minutes. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And It was soon clear that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might bethis was no accident.
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|isbn=17765743380008385068|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Midnight Feast|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Every morning Leilong, It's midsummer on the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donIt't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s their opening weekend and slide down his necksplendid celebrations are promised. It's perfect, isnall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she't s converted it? into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. What could be a more fun way Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of going to school? the site. There The heat is a problem, thoughoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having Old scores are going to be careful about where he puts his feet settled and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he canit won't be the bus anymorelong before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=303091657XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=Boards must act Written in the best interests of their stakeholders verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and ensure that they are well-managed and financially securestart at a mostly white school. This might seem obvious but The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a series of disasters - some of which have resulted tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in death or the collapse a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingtrouble. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of what was happening or they preferred to turn being a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityrapper. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing But now, in this new: Gerry Brown school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, slowly, Ronny begins to see the South Sea Bubble connections between rap and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlepoetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=15293379681635866847|title=In Place of FearThe Lavender Companion|author=Catriona McPhersonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=It's July 1948 strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Helen Crowther is due to start work as there's a picture of a qualified medical almoner slice of chocolate cake on the following morning homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - on the day but I wanted that the NHS is borncake viscerally. She(There'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser s a recipe in their GP surgery the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her job will be I was told to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthmake a mess of it. The hardest part of Notes in the job will be margins are sanctioned. You get to persuade people that fold down the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for themcorners of pages. Some You suspect that smears of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has butter would not be a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedI ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Mark LinganeRob Keeley|title=GalaxyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=SparkAround here, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunatewe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Waking from He's a coma that lasted yearsball of happy positivity, he remembers little understands children, and is in no physical shape he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to resume his dutieslecture or hector. But Earth The ''Childish Spirits'' series is under threat and he mustone of his greatest achievements. Returned by his superiors to It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the space stationspirit world throws at her, and Edward, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - spoiled lordling and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=B09X3NZ76W1783064617
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|author=Lissa EvansJenny Valentine|title=WishedUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Elk and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanMab are best friends, Miss Fileyor more than that even, for their friendship is a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to itonce in a lifetime connection. For They meet as children one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is day on a special brand of biscuit. They trip out but unfortunately they don't particularly take to Willard either, get each other's contact details at the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywheretime. But things soon change when then chance brings them back together, and they find some tiny old birthday candlesare inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and manage to tragic, and now they must work out that these candlesthrough their grief, for as long as and their flames lastfriendship, make birthday wishes come truetogether. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X1471196585
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|author=Justyn EdwardsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Great Fox IllusionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a contest with a difference. No singingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, no dancingcentury-old, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workmazes, and who can attempt race to win The Great Foxthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's magical legacy - seen of the latest race on the secrets inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to all the goading from the token bully of his tricks! Flick is determined to winworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, but not because she wants and how could he possibly hope to own succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the trickspremise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. She is interested The fact that it was the second in just a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'oneve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fathers good enough. And shethat wasn's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to bring her missing father homespeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=15295019460861541561
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|author=Jason RohanStuart Douglas|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Sam have had little to do with DonnaLeggit', a girl at their school. But things immediately change at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the start of this extended sprint dead body of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become woman on the attention edge of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school a reservoir. The police seem happy to find out why. And thus assign it as an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of companyaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is enlists the computer buffhelp of a fellow actor, Donna seems John Le Breton to know all help him investigate matters further. They travel across the criminal ins country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and outs , seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and survival skills-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and Arun? Wellcarrying a knife, itcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his lot to find out that all honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he based his family life on isn't true, d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected'John Tanner' were made for each other. But how can this disparate trio hope He's sleep-deprived to best MI6, kidnappers, people able the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=16384852161787333175|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black ManYou Don's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcementt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Frederick ReynoldsBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything I was tempted to do with character. Period.read '' You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'One more body just wouldn't matterafter enjoying Adam Kay''. The murder of George Floyds first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in glorious mixture of insight into the US city workings of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the worldNHS, humour and autobiography. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception'You Don't Have to be Mad... The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedwork of a psychiatrist. There I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a backlash against the police - person and it is always delivered with empathy and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''The party of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood s increasingly popular presence on an island. It was now known as Island Homesocial media, one where she posted every step of The Home GroupAnuri's exclusive clubs childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standardsbasically, monetary gain. SpeedboatsNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, helicopters and blackedsuing her step-out SUVs were converging on mother to take down the islandcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, which was linked failing to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Home's CEOMost importantly, Ned Groomshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is determined that everything, the new focus of Ophelia''everything'' will be perfects online empire. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Melissa Fu David Chadwick|title=Peach Blossom Spring Headload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Thrillers|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom SpringIt's September 1973 in Hicks, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''California. Unfortunately it Hicks is the only truly poetic part a Mojave desert town of a book that I expected more fromfew thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one familyA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's perspectivenot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. When their home city Life is set ablaze during the war with Japanquiet, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who fleeuntil... The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538B0D321VJ76
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|author=Vanda SymonTom Percival|title=FacelessThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsWill's life is difficult, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepin a multitude of ways. Set in New ZealandHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the first wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of our characters is Bradleythings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, cash-in-hand job on a weighty mortgage, building site and what he feels is had an unappreciative wifeaccident. Then there’s BillyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes and Will's life seems bleak in order to pay for the materials she needsevery direction. And then we have Maxyet, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billyhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is a shell of a mangood at art, barely able and clings to take any care the moments of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than joy when he is now. One nightdrawing, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down that feel like a light at the street looking for end of a prostitute. He picks up Billylong, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentdark tunnel.|isbn=19145850461398527122
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Sylvie Cathrall|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around A Letter to the World|author=Sue FlandersLuminous Deep
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|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=Just occasionally you encounter There are few greater joys than a book of knitting patterns which seems lives up to meet your every needa compelling premise. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was And this is one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17765740280008517061|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=David ElliottStig Abell
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=I love a good board book! Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite There’s perhaps a niche market: it's for little uncertainty about the child who still enjoys board books (erfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words Livia and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a tutu lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete relaxing life to move in with yellow duck) Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) her daughter? The pelican who sits For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on his potty changes into a ''sm......the back burner.'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1786482126|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Rob KeeleyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the finals of the Moots site was going to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarhold seventy-five 'luxury's Inn. For aspiring barristers, moots test apartments - when they discovered the participants' knowledge bones of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Tom and Nat are from 'Was this a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of this. ritual killing or murder? The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. TomIt's £30 supermarket suit difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't make him feel any better, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15291259440008551324|title=City of the DeadThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jonathan KellermanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and itIt's not just about unusual for anyone from the way that you driveHardie family to approach the police. You restrict your alcohol intake Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and if ithe's prepared to tell the police where the body of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 aThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.m. when And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the roads are quieter, even if you have remainder of his sentence and to wait up when you get to where you're goingan early parole date. And Not much to ask, is it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. ? The man was stark naked new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and couldnanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't be identifieds happening.
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|authorisbn=0008405026|title=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme A Stranger in the Family (TranslatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=I May Be WrongJane Casey
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|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, IIt'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the world responds investigation ground to your booka halt. I knowNow, having read the book her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thoughttheir bed. He knows (and at core so do I) that Initially, it matters very much how looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the rest positioning of the world responds bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to this book, because it tells be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the truth explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as it isDerwent's boss, in the early 21st centuryUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10571379877|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Kellerby Code|author=Tim SullivanJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
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|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, quite probably AspergerRobert and Stanza. Robert's Syndromea theatre director. He can be rude's also self-obsessed, demanding, difficult handsome and entitled and awkward with people, although it's never intentionaluses Edward to run errands for him. ItEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's just that drunkenly confided how he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur feels to himRobert. ThereMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a reason why relationship had begun between them but he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner not like most men: Edward is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached left to himself) and even attempts to instil some stumble upon the two of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Jo Callaghan|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped When a man is found crucified on the city top of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closedhill in Nuneaton, most never DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to reopenthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. ThereIt's now their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a cascade lot of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end unwanted attention to greedtheir AI Future Policing project. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are Will they going be able to launder all solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the money which is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about thiscase and, potentially, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was out of a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advice.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1399613073|title=WrathMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Meet FitzOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a young Scottish lad full quarter of frustration at himselfa century. Lockdown Olivia is only just overruthlessly ambitious, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it which is a bonus when he talks you aim to his best friend, Cassiebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. They were half of Laura is a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear perfectionist and a subhuman hum coming from the earthtrauma doctor. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying Anjali is the end free spirit of the world is already group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a done deal? Is drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he cangoing to end in tragedy. We don'tknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1800900899
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|isbn=16358640700241636604|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Safiyyah TalleyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you've ever started knitting a pair re unlikely to think of socks, finished someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the first one pin-stripe suit and either got bored by his background is the idea of doing the same thing all over againEast End, where he was familiar with violence, or started poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for youLondon School of Economics. Where Stevenson is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley bright - extremely bright - and he has developed a system facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that allows you most rich people expect poor people to knit two socks in onebe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of sockscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1035021803|title=The Atlas SixAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, sharpCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and highly inquisitivethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming she worked in a Tik-Tok sensationcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1529095239
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|isbn=0008384983AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Paris ApartmentAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lucy FoleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seemOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''.
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Sunny Singh|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsThrillers |summary=I was so delighted The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hata terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Mittenthere is Sam, Scarf a wartime photographer and Sock Projects from Around Abhi, the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''hotel manager. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by textiles and local traditions from Norwayevents, Sweden and Icelandkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There are a few sweaters or jackets but Although they only ever talk over the majority of patterns are for smaller items such phone, their friendship grows as mittens, gloves, hats Abhi tries to help her keep safe and bags. All they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are bright and cheerful and very cosydiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=19160720381529153298|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)List of Suspicious Things|author=Allie CresswellJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington(A woman? I mean, to the house in the hollowhonestly... ) The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherShe's strengths and weaknesses: not what's worrying Miv'She is practiced at subterfuges family, at concealingthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, beneath a facade of respectabilitythey've been murdered, the deplorable truthbut to have 'disappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. Hester is furious about Jocelyn Miv's refusal to do as upset because she was asked, which has precipitated 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'this violent and unexpected removalDown South'. When you'. Then we are told of the birth of re from Yorkshire, Down South is a child andfrightening, soon afterforeign place, Hester Talbot departsbest avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving Jocelyn in shame her best friend, Sharon, and isolation in Yorkshireshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1398524085|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{FrontpageHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Nicci French|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a police officersons Niall, Paul and Emma RammOllie and her daughter, a crime journalistEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. In this book we Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find that when one the body of BlixGreg's colleaguesfather, KovicDuncan Ackerley, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixin the river. Before she can reach him, however, she is It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered, Charlie and Blixthen committed suicide when he couldn's daughter Iselin who shares t stand the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooguilt. We then find ourselves a few days later The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Blix their lives and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenwonder about what really happened. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1035906708|title=Age of AshDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly tend to think of Oldgate's four bridgesMaria Callas as Greek, but she has a knife was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in her hand December 1923 and a meeting that only moved to Athens when she dreadswas thirteen. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possibleStates. It is the night between When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the funeral of Nazi occupation by a Prince mother who mercilessly exploited her and the coronation made no secret of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruledher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Christopher Edge|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Kate Harding is going Lucas and his friends are all booked in for an interview for her dream job a movie marathon at Edge Communications. It's their local cinema, a place that has the last interview nickname of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something specialThe Black Hole'. Maggie All big movie fans, Katethey's recruitment agentre looking forward to lots of exciting films, is keen to see that Kate approaches and many, many snacks! However, as the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - very different, and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B097XNMCRK|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'they are swept up into an adventure they couldn' the back of beyond: there's not t even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsimagine. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earner, only But as they lurch from one film genre to find that Maccathe next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the man he thought he was working withcinema, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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